In March 1945 the Rhine River was the last great barrier to the heart of Germany. General George S. Patton of US 3rd Army and ...

Near the village of Douvres, he twice crawled across a minefield to gain intelligence on a German radar station, leading to its capture and the surrender of 150 enemy soldiers. In March 1945 ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor said on Thursday he would return his federal order of merit award to the ...

Lord was 28 and served as a gunner aboard an A-26B “Invader” on a bombing mission to Dülmen, Germany, in March 1945 when it was hit by heavy anti-aircraft fire and crashed, according to the ...

The German people had suffered terribly during both the First World War and the Depression and a huge part of the Nazis’ appeal was that they promised to make Germany’s economy strong again.

Itka Zygmuntowicz (1926–2020), Survivor of Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Death Camp (1940–1945) RG-50.030*0435, Oral history interview with Itka Zygmuntowicz, (1926-2020).

ISBN: 978-0-4512-3008-9 . The Allied bomber offensive against Nazi Germany remains one of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War. It certainly was one of the most costly. By May of ...

Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945 (London, 2008). Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (London, 2007). Peter Fritzsche, An Iron Wind: ...

The Auschwitz camp complex has survived largely unchanged since its liberation in January 1945. The remaining camp buildings, structures and infrastructure are a silent witness to history, bearing ...